Observer Performance in Assessing Anemia on Thoracic CT
Rachel S. Title1,2,
Keith Harper1,
Erik Nelson1,
Tom Evans1 and
Richard Tello1,3
1 Department of Radiology, Boston Medical Center, Boston University, Boston, MA
02118.
2 Present address: Department of Radiology, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New
York Weill Cornell Medical Center, 525 E 68th St., Starr Pavilion, Box 141,
New York, NY 10021.
3 Deceased.

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Fig. 1 Graph shows correlation between density in Hounsfield units
and hemoglobin levels in all 102 patients.
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Fig. 2 Graph shows correlation between hemoglobin levels versus
density in Hounsfield units in men.
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Fig. 3 Graph shows correlation between hemoglobin levels versus
density in Hounsfield units in women.
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Fig. 4 Graph shows receiver operating characteristic curve analysis
of CT density in Hounsfield units as discriminator of anemia with hemoglobin
level of less than 12 as cutoff.
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Fig. 5 Graph shows receiver operating characteristic curve fit for
binormal curves for ability of all observers to discriminate anemia from
nonanemia.
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